I THREATNED to observe the strict decree
Of my deare God with all my power and might : But I was told by one, it could not be ;Yet I might trust in God to be my light.

Then will I trust, said I, in him alone.
Nay, evín to trust in him, was also his : We must confesse, that nothing is our own.
Then I confesse that he my succour is :

But to have nought is ours, not to confesse
That we have nought. I stood amazíd at this,
Much troubled, till I heard a friend expresse,
That all things were more ours by being his.
What Adam had, and forfeited for all,
Christ keepeth now, who cannot fail or fall.

Source:
Herbert, George. The Poetical Works of George Herbert.
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1857. 182.